… iris features bluebird-blue standards and royal blue falls with a white-edged yellow blotch. The triangular-shaped leaves elongate after flowering to 12 inches in length and go dormant near midsummer. Over time, each bulb will produce offsets resulting in …
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… Q. I would like to enrich my garden soil this spring and wonder about using manure on my flower beds. A. Composted or aged manure is a wonderful soil amendment, useful in most types of garden beds. When completely composted, it contains all the organic matter without any of the weed seeds, soluble salts and ammonia present in fresh …
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… Maple-leaf bugbane is an upright perennial that grows to a maximum height of 4 feet. It requires full sun to partial shade and moist soil conditions. From late spring to early fall it produces white flowers. The plant is most useful in a border. …
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… Slender, wiry stalks reach up to 18 inches tall and spread up to a foot wide. Blue flax is a pretty garden plant as well as field crop. Hundreds of tiny blue flowers, each about 3/4 inch in diameter, last as long as 12 weeks if conditions are favorable. These lovely perennial flowers cover the plant in late spring and early summer. …
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… Pink anemone clematis is a vigorous deciduous climber that grows 25 to 30 feet and produces small, pale pink, 2-inch flowers in late spring to early summer. As a member of pruning group 1, it should be pruned immediately after flowering by removing some of the older stems. Pink anemone clematis is hardy to USDA Zones 7-9 and is not reliable in very …
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… Why, botanically speaking, is a tomato a fruit? What is the difference between a fern and a moss? Dive deep into the botanic world to explore the importance of plants in our lives, scientific taxonomy and classification, plant life cycles, and the amazing …
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… Why, botanically speaking, is a tomato a fruit? What is the difference between a fern and a moss? Dive deep into the botanic world to explore the importance of plants in our lives, scientific taxonomy and classification, plant life cycles, and the amazing …
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… blue needles that curve upwards slightly. New growth is a contrasting shade of mint green. The form is rather irregular when young, and when older will tend to have a flat top. After ten years it can be expected to reach four feet tall and five or six feet wide. White firs are the most tolerant of the firs with growing conditions in the Chicago area, but prefer a good, organic soil that is well-drained. …
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… Plum Passion ground orchid is derived from the ground orchids of the rain forests of southern Asia and the Pacific. It has long dark green … are a dark maroon-purple and are borne on flower stems called racemes. This orchid grows to about 2 feet tall and wide and prefers bright indirect or dappled light and consistently moist soil. It is not hardy in Chicago but can be successfully grown indoors with attention to lighting and potting medium. …
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… Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mariesii Variegata' is a deciduous shrub that grows 3 to 6 feet tall and wide. It features dark green leaves and large clusters of flowers which are either lacecap or mophead in structure. Mariesii Variegata, a lacecap cultivar that grows 4 to 6 feet tall, has large green … edges. It blooms from May through August. Its spectacular blooms change color depending on the soil in which it is planted–blue in acidic soils and pink in alkaline soils–and are …
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